DISSEMINATED SCLEROSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disseminated sclerosis mean? 

• DISSEMINATED SCLEROSIS (noun)
  The noun DISSEMINATED SCLEROSIS has 1 sense:

1. a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers

  Familiarity information: DISSEMINATED SCLEROSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISSEMINATED SCLEROSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

disseminated multiple sclerosis; disseminated sclerosis; MS; multiple sclerosis

Hypernyms ("disseminated sclerosis" is a kind of...):

degenerative disorder (condition leading to progressive loss of function)

induration; sclerosis (any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue)

autoimmune disease; autoimmune disorder (any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues)

Meronyms (parts of "disseminated sclerosis"):

demyelination (loss of the myelin covering of some nerve fibers resulting in their impaired function)